Here is another finally finished piece after a couple years sitting in the pile of "projects in process"
The messer is based on an example I stumbled upon in an auction house in Augsburg, Germany...however sadly it was not for sale and only a display piece. The by-knife and pick are made to match the messer but were not included in the display. The messer is hollow-ground and 24 1/4 inches long with the balance point around 2 inches, and the scabbard is constructed of two layers of leather. The technique used on the scabbard was an experiment in a more medieval approach of tooling leather. The technique I used was simply a warm sharply beveled dull knife on damp leather with a simple circle punch used for the back ground. I did not use any hammers in the detailing and it was done with a propane torch to keep the heat to the point just before the water would sizzle. Also the tooling of the scabbard was done post construction in trying to keep with the medieval process. I will post some pictures of the tools when I get back to the workshop but here it is...
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